Bee Urban[a] is a company whose business idea is to place bee hives in urban environments for a fee - the bees help with pollination of plants in the city, thus giving us all a better environment. Just like every other hive, these hives produce honey, and each year it is harvested. I went to Bee Urban's honey processing center (for want of a better word) to picking up some urban honey. I got the honey, a tour of the facility, and also ended up adopting 50 bees on the spot![b].
Bee Urban's founders, Karolina Lisslö and Josefina Oddsberg, also won the runner-up prize in this year's Beautiful Business Award[c].
A frame from a bee hive. The cells are covered by wax ("capping"), which is scraped off before it is "slung" out in an extractor.
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Josefina Oddsberg shows the un-slung frame from a bee hive.
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The honey-making room. The extractor is the steel cylinder in the far left corner. The extractor works as a centrifuge[d] and since it doesn't destroy the cells in the frames, they can be re-used by the bees.
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Here, in the basement of Stora Skuggans Wärdshus, is where the honey is processed by Bee Urban.
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Two jars of honey, in an urban setting this time. The blurred shapes of Hötorgshusen can be seen in the background.
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